Its not the end of the world, apparenty

Not much news on the Brexit front today, other than our glorious leader, the PM T. May, today said that a no deal Brexit would not bring “the end of the world”, which I don’t remember seeing written on the side of a bus.

In other news, the chairman of a leading UK supermarket outlined what a no deal would bring, and mainly that would be 10%, in general, in prices across the board. With, for example, the following tariffs from the EU on basic WTO scales: cheese will attract a 44 per cent tariff, beef a 40 per cent tariff, lamb a 40 per cent tariff, chicken a 22 per cent tariff, apples a 15 per cent tariff and grapes a 20 per cent tariff, and so on.

Fresh food will see the biggest prices increases, as we can only get that from the EU, so no alternative for alternative sources.

However, getting the Brexiteers claim that all this is a new version of project fear, and many companies who have been in talks with the Government, were forced to sign Non-disclosure Agreements, NDAs, to stop anything alarming from getting out into the public realm. But why would the Government want to keep anything that might affect the public perception of Brexit quiet, especially when what they keeping quiet would show what a disaster Brexit would mean to each person in the country?

Jools and I have decided not to look for a replacement car, as the Corsa has done over 60k miles, we won't until we see what the state of the country is after next March. It would be silly to take on yet more debt only for the economy to tank soon afterwards and we can't keep up the repayments.

That and no holiday planned for next year at all, so Brexit planning also happening close to home.

Ten questions all UK citizens should ask of themselves and their MP

1. How much clout does a nation of 65 million people have in global trade?
2. Will the British government ask for the ability to extend the transition period?
3. Do we really want a trade deal with the United States?
4. Should the UK remain in a customs union with the EU?
5. What’s the real appetite among the British public to go ‘buccaneering’?
6. What economic price is worth paying to end free movement?
7. Is it time to throw our lot in with EU defence?
8. Will a second referendum fix anything?
9. How politically unsustainable is vassalage really?
10. Does a ‘customs border’ in the Irish Sea really risk the break up of the UK?

I will give you my answers tomorrow, most you could guess, I suspect.